SATA HDD not recognised

[BIGEYE]

Got my new build up and running, however, my SATA2 second HDD is not shown
in My Computer or Windows Explorer, it is being recognised at boot up. I
have 2 x Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drives and a LG SATA2
DVD Drive.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX
Motherboard, OS is XP Pro with SP2.

I have connected the SATA drives to the following mobo connectors:
HDD 1 connected to SATA2 0
HDD 2 connected to SATA2 1
DVD connected to SATA2 2

Windows Explorer & My computer only shows C and D drives (HDD & DVD Drives).
Swapped over the HDD2 & DVD connectors on mobo but made no difference.

This is my first use of SATA drives, I don't want a RAID configuration, only
a Primary HDD, Secondary HDD & DVD drives as I would have with IDE.

Until I can get the pc to recognise the second HDD, I can't format it.

Appreciate any help on this.

TIA

 

[SteveH]

Got my new build up and running, however, my SATA2 second HDD is not
shown in My Computer or Windows Explorer, it is being recognised at
boot up. I have 2 x Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard
Drives and a LG SATA2 DVD Drive.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel Audio
ATX Motherboard, OS is XP Pro with SP2.

I have connected the SATA drives to the following mobo connectors:
HDD 1 connected to SATA2 0
HDD 2 connected to SATA2 1
DVD connected to SATA2 2

Windows Explorer & My computer only shows C and D drives (HDD & DVD
Drives). Swapped over the HDD2 & DVD connectors on mobo but made no
difference.
This is my first use of SATA drives, I don't want a RAID
configuration, only a Primary HDD, Secondary HDD & DVD drives as I
would have with IDE.
Until I can get the pc to recognise the second HDD, I can't format it.

Appreciate any help on this.

TIA

Is it being detected during POST?

SteveH

 

[BIGEYE]

2 x HDD's showing at boot up

Is it being detected during POST?

SteveH

 

[SteveH]

2 x HDD's showing at boot up

Try going into Administrative tools/disk management. If the 2nd drive shows
up there you should be able to initialise it.

SteveH

 

[philo]

Got my new build up and running, however, my SATA2 second HDD is not shown
in My Computer or Windows Explorer, it is being recognised at boot up. I
have 2 x Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drives and a LG SATA2
DVD Drive.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX
Motherboard, OS is XP Pro with SP2.

I have connected the SATA drives to the following mobo connectors:
HDD 1 connected to SATA2 0
HDD 2 connected to SATA2 1
DVD connected to SATA2 2

Windows Explorer & My computer only shows C and D drives (HDD & DVD Drives).
Swapped over the HDD2 & DVD connectors on mobo but made no difference.

This is my first use of SATA drives, I don't want a RAID configuration, only
a Primary HDD, Secondary HDD & DVD drives as I would have with IDE.

Until I can get the pc to recognise the second HDD, I can't format it.

Appreciate any help on this.

TIA

You need to go into disk management
then partition and format the drive.
new drives usually come not-formatted

 

[BIGEYE]

In progress at the moment, 500 GB should take a wee while.

 

[philo]

In progress at the moment, 500 GB should take a wee while.

Hope it's all formatted by now

 

[Ginchy]

Hope it's all formatted by now

yes philo the above actually means "thanks for the time trouble and effort
you took to help me...its all working fine now...thanks again"

I`m sure it means that?

Lot of selfish people about!